Bending and Curving

krisp · Post by **krisp** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 10:18 pm

Is there a way to bend, curve or wrap one object around another. For example if one object was a circle and another was a school bus, can you fit the school bus around the circle? Thanks for any helpl.

Masami · Post by **Masami** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 10:45 pm

There are a lot of cool distortion effects in Photo Impact, but I don't believe there's any effects that would quite do what you what. With the custom effects you might be able to do it manually though. I've never tried anything likt that, so I don't know how difficult it would be.

keenart · Post by **keenart** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:05 am

PI 10 does some impressive 2D Wrap and Rotation, but it can only create a 2 axis object, with lighting, that appears to be 3D in nature. A true 3D object is composed of 3 axis.

Additionally, if you rotate a 3D object with the 3D Track Ball it will reveal the object is only 2D, as the lower half of your image will disappear when rotated.

You can use the perspective tools, lighting, masking and so on to create some near looking 3D Wraps that are actually 2D, but you will spend a lot of time on composition.

keenart · Post by **keenart** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 5:51 am

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krisp · Post by **krisp** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 7:39 am

thanks for the help guys but i just quit on that and went for a simpler design. check out the product at www.theinevitableduo.com if you're bored. that site is entirely photo-impact(ed). If you've got any graphic suggestions let me know.

keenart · Post by **keenart** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:54 pm

Not Bad!! A future Web Designer!!

By the Way, out of curiosity "What were you trying to wrap around what?" Other than the School Bus!

krisp · Post by **krisp** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:39 pm

instead of a box as the main window i was going to have a cirlce with the city skyline wrapped around the top.

keenart · Post by **keenart** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:37 am

Okay, maybe I am not sure I understand the layout but it seems to me you should be able to do that.

So, would you try to create a circle filled with the skyline as if an arch? If so, then just overlay a box the same width as the circle, with the top of the box cutting through half of the bottom circle. In other words a doorway with an arch, the arch is the Skyline and the box is the Text body.

If that isn’t what your looking for give me more details.

krisp · Post by **krisp** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:44 am

well i'm quite pleased with what i've got and i think i like the comprimised format better, but what i meant is not to have the skyline fill in the circle, but on it, almost like a bent border. For example taking "_" and making it into "n"to wrap around something like a border.

keenart · Post by **keenart** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 2:33 pm

All right I got it now. You could do that also, now that I know exactly what you’re talking about. Here is how you would do that.

Create a photo of your Skyline. You may want to enlarge or crop it in the size of the page you would want to create, otherwise it will duplicate on the border. Then drag drop the image into the Fill Gallery of the Easy Palette. Create a rectangular shape from the Outline Tool. Make the border thickness say 30 pixels wide. Then rotate the rectangle in the direction you want. Get the Image you created and drag drop it into the border of the rectangular shape you created. Your skyline will surround an empty rectangular shape.

Yes the site you have looks pretty good, at least now you will have more options if you decide to change things or experiment a bit. It gets in the blood once you know how to do the design thing, sometimes fun and sometimes a lot of frustration.